Re: Re: Desired bahaviour of $releasever when using --installroot

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Alexander Todorov wrote:
> 
>> I am using the --installroot option and noticed something strange.
>> The baseurl in my .repo file contains both $releasever and $basearch.
>> When using with --installroot $releasever is translated to "Null" not
> 
> Does your installroot already include the 'redhat-release' pkg (or whatever
> is referenced as distroverpkg in your yum.conf)? 

No, it's an empty directory.
So distroverpkg is the requirement for that to work properly?

Thanks,
Alexander.